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Life and Arts

Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones is interviewed on the red carpet for the SXSW premiere of "On Swift Horses" at the Paramount Theatre on March 13, 2025.

Life&Arts spring in review, summer and fall preview 

Flora Farr, Life&Arts Editor April 25, 2025

Music: Looking Back: Black Pumas co-founder and UT alumnus Adrian Quesada released “Home Free,” a film soundtrack donating proceeds to the unhoused Austin community. Cactus Cafe also celebrated...

Texas Black Lens’ ‘A Seat at the Table’ highlights Black student filmmakers

Texas Black Lens’ ‘A Seat at the Table’ highlights Black student filmmakers

Charlotte Karner, Senior Life&Arts Reporter April 25, 2025

When radio-television-film senior Kyla Simmons came to UT, she said she found it hard to be at a predominantly white institution as a Black student and a creative. She said she wanted to get involved on...

5 local outdoor activities for May

5 local outdoor activities for May

Sydnie Grayson, General Life&Arts Reporter April 23, 2025

In May, April showers go away and the flowers bloom. In light of more sunshine in Austin, The Daily Texan compiled a list of five outdoor activities in Austin to keep spirits up following exam and graduation...

CAMP Film Festival Founders on industry changes, tapping into young storytellers

CAMP Film Festival Founders on industry changes, tapping into young storytellers

Tyler Pullum, Entertainment Columnist April 23, 2025

Taking place at the Paramount Theatre from April 26-27, the CAMP Film Festival aims to bridge the gap between internet-savvy creators and theatrical audiences in a new, immersive festival experience. Two...

John Green teaches that ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ in new nonfiction book

John Green teaches that ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ in new nonfiction book

Ryan Ranc, General Life&Arts Reporter April 23, 2025

John Green, author of “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking for Alaska,” launched a new non-fiction book entitled “Everything is Tuberculosis,” which tells the history of the world’s most...

Daily Texan’s playlist of summer, featuring Austin artists

Daily Texan’s playlist of summer, featuring Austin artists

Madison West, Life&Arts General Reporter April 23, 2025

With finals right around the corner and summer break in sight, it’s time to refresh those worn-out study playlists. The Daily Texan compiled a list of songs from three Austin artists to build the ultimate...

Sunrise on the Reaping” paints the backstory of fan-favorite Haymitch

Sunrise on the Reaping” paints the backstory of fan-favorite Haymitch

Ryan Ranc, General Life&Arts Reporter April 23, 2025

Suzanne Collins will go down as one of the best writers of the 21st century. She single-handedly reignited the young adult dystopian subgenre with the massively successful 2008 novel “The Hunger Games,”...

The exterior of the Paramount Theatre during a Summer Classic Film Series screening of Steel Magnolias on August 22, 2024.

Local businesses share insights on the impact of SXSW

Max Kinser and Tyler Pullum April 22, 2025

This March, hundreds of thousands of visitors flocked to downtown Austin for South By Southwest, transforming the city into a melting pot of the brightest minds in tech and entertainment. Beyond the official...

From center left, Neha Arvinth, Deekshita Sundararaman and Kate Seno.

HealthMaze bridges health care literacy gap for Austin’s unhoused

Sabrina Ye, General Life&Arts Reporter April 22, 2025

In 2023, students volunteering under Interstate 35 noticed how hesitant unhoused individuals were to approach their blood pressure screening table. Tired of hearing alarming health numbers without guidance...

Student-run Instagram ‘Tour De Coffee’ encourages followers to explore Austin, drink sustainably

Student-run Instagram ‘Tour De Coffee’ encourages followers to explore Austin, drink sustainably

Ana Taveira, General Life&Arts Reporter April 21, 2025

Sydney Baker and Alysa Madriz met the summer before freshman year, quickly bonding over their shared love of coffee. In hopes of exploring Austin, the two made a pact to try a new local coffee shop every...

Butler Opera Center portrays centuries-old emotion with new fervor in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

Butler Opera Center portrays centuries-old emotion with new fervor in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

Charlotte Karner, Senior Life&Arts Reporter April 21, 2025

In 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the famous “Le Nozze di Figaro,” or “The Marriage of Figaro.” The story, based on the play by Pierre de Beaumarchais, follows the wedding of Figaro and Susanna,...

Members of the Texas Pre-Dental Society hold up numbered paper plates to bid on various items during their auction benefiting Kids Tooth Team Outreach on April 9, 2025. Kids Tooth Team Outreach, the main non-profit Texas Pre-Dental Society works with, is a mobile dental clinic providing dental procedures to uninsured kids in rural and low-income communities in central Texas.

Texas Pre-Dental Society auction raises money for mobile dental clinic, spotlights creative student donations

Sabrina Ye, General Life&Arts Reporter April 21, 2025

On weekdays, a colorfully painted dental van pulls into local elementary schools, transforming into a mobile clinic where children receive cleanings, x-rays and fillings — often for the first time. Behind...

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